[clue-tech] Installing new router, getting printer to work

[David L. Anselmi]

Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> Yes, I have a Linksys router as well.  Under the Gaming and
> Applications tab, there is a list to forward ports.  I'm not sure I
> understand the term port in this case (I think of 192.168.0.5:631).

As commonly used, the port number above is 631.  It represents a service 
on a machine.

It might be worth reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Address_Translation

The third paragraph describes your problem.

The fix is to forward port 631 to the printer's IP.

> The help on the server suggests I can't use DHCP with "port
> forwarding".

Do you mean on the router?  What it probably means is that you can't 
forward a port to a machine whose address is dynamically assigned (i.e., 
it changes).  That should be fairly obvious.  You're assigning an IP to 
your printer though, right, not using DHCP to assign to it?

Dave